Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-03 Thread Johan Scheepers
Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Johan Scheepers > wrote: >> Good day, >> >> Been googling about this matter. >> Afraid I am now confused. >> Too many options..: for/against/whatever. >> Some is years ago. >> >> Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to ena

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-02 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Been googling about this matter. > Afraid I am now confused. > Too many options..: for/against/whatever. > Some is years ago. > > Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 > please. > Thanks > Joha

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-02 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:19 PM, cybernet wrote: > centOS 5.5 is for servers not for desktops, please get use to that > use another distribution like ... a very popular one for desktops Or just install the multimedia add-ons and use it as your desktop. For MP3s, I just install XMMS and the MP3

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Scot P. Floess wrote: >> Well - really isn't it all in what tool makes the most sense for the job >> at hand? If one doesn't need the latest and greatest - CentOS as a >> desktop is super stable... >> >> Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora...

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Johan Scheepers
Scot P. Floess wrote: > Well - really isn't it all in what tool makes the most sense for the job > at hand? If one doesn't need the latest and greatest - CentOS as a > desktop is super stable... > > Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora...but still :) > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Alan Hodgson wrote: > >

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Scot P. Floess
Well - really isn't it all in what tool makes the most sense for the job at hand? If one doesn't need the latest and greatest - CentOS as a desktop is super stable... Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora...but still :) On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On December 1, 2010, "Scot P. Floe

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 1, 2010, "Scot P. Floess" wrote: > I think when CentOS 6 is released, that may not be even close to true :) > I'm running RHEL 6 @ work as my desktop - it has a fairly decent version > of KDE (4.3 specifically) - and this is on a laptop -> its great ;) > Until a year from now. When

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Johan Scheepers
Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Been googling about this matter. > Afraid I am now confused. > Too many options..: for/against/whatever. > Some is years ago. > > Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 > please. > Thanks > Johan > > __

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:32:40PM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > For my VMs I definitely use CentOS for anything graphical - like a > desktop... Of course, my bare metal box @ home is running F14... Which just shows how flexible, in many ways, it is. I'm the exact opposite, though my worksta

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:04:58 am Johan Scheepers wrote: > Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 > please. The Fluendo MP3 decode plugin for gstreamer is no-cost, and is fully licensed for MP3 playback. It should work for any gstreamer-enabled player.

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread samuel machua
If you use the rpmforge repo you can also get VLC too and between Mplayer and VLC I have not found an audio format they wont play. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:15:30 -0500 "Brunner, Brian T." wrote: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html > > Step-by-step mp3 play > > http://ftp.freshrpms.net

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread m . roth
cybernet wrote: > centOS 5.5 is for servers not for desktops, please get use to that > use another distribution like ... a very popular one for desktops > Why? We use it a lot, here where I work, and I use it at home - a) I like real stability, and b) I don't want to have to think about the differe

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Scot P. Floess
For my VMs I definitely use CentOS for anything graphical - like a desktop... Of course, my bare metal box @ home is running F14... I think when CentOS 6 is released, that may not be even close to true :) I'm running RHEL 6 @ work as my desktop - it has a fairly decent version of KDE (4.3 s

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
>> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of cybernet >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:20 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3 >> centOS 5.5 is for servers not for desktops, S

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/01/2010 07:19 PM, cybernet wrote: > centOS 5.5 is for servers not for desktops, please get use to that > use another distribution like ... a very popular one for desktops Sorry, but this is nonsense. I myself run CentOS on my workstation at the office (heaviest duty network admin, I wouldn'

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread cybernet
centOS 5.5 is for servers not for desktops, please get use to that use another distribution like ... a very popular one for desktops From: Johan Scheepers To: centos Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 5:04:58 PM Subject: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3 Good day, Bee

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread m . roth
Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Been googling about this matter. > Afraid I am now confused. > Too many options..: for/against/whatever. > Some is years ago. > > Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 > please. Install mplayer. There are a number of front-en

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html Step-by-step mp3 play http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/packages/xmms/ Also works You may try rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5. rf.i386.rpm Then yum install xmms xmms-skins xmms-mp3 yum install gstreamer